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I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey. I am currently doing research in the Calculus of Variations, in particular with application to non-linear elasticity. My main research interests include:

• Minimisation of the Dirichlet Energy functional and other similar integral functionals that have polyconvex integrands with respect to the gradient.
• How topological properties of boundary data plays a role in local minimisation of functionals.
• The impact of incompressibility type constraints on the minimisation of functionals and how this transforms convex to polyconvex problems.

Further details about some of my current work are available to read here.

Below are some recent presentations of my research, along with a list of academic and funding awards that I have received.

Presentations

• An Introduction to my Research, Surrey, (12/2024).
• Hightlights of 2024, Surrey, (12/2024).
• Amazing Maths Seminar, Surrey, (10/2024).
• JAS, Imperial College London Talk (03/2024).
• Singularities and patterns in evolution equations, Bath, Poster (09/2023).
• SIAM Student Chapter Conference, Oxford, Poster (06/2023).
• PGR Student Seminar, Surrey, Talk (05/2023).
• Internal Student Conference, Surrey, Poster (03/2023).
• Taste of Research for Undergraduate Students, Talk (03/2023).

Awards

• EPSRC Studentship for project entitled ‘Topics in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations’ (2021).
• Stephen Gourley Prize for excellent final year project (2021).
• Third Year Departmental Prize for the best performance in Level 6 (2020).
• Second Year Departmental Prize for the best performance in Level 5 (2018).
• LMS Undergraudate Research Bursary with department matched funding for project entitled ‘Bifurcations and dynamics in circle maps derived from ‘threshold’ dynamical systems’ (2018).
• First Year Departmental Prize for the best performance in Level 4 (2017).